Joyce Meyer Quotes
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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Yasmin Mogahed
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes
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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?
Confucius
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I told a big investor in The New Yorker - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`Bill Shawn pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.
Nat Hentoff
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Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."
Steve Martin
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
C. S. Lewis
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As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.
Cecil B. DeMille
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I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
Rick Perlstein
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Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
Joyce Meyer
